Robert Magaw

Robert Magaw (1738-7 January 1790) was the colonel of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Robert Magaw was born in 1738 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to immigrants from County Tyrone, Ireland. Magaw would later move to Carlisle to study law, and he would be elected colonel of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Magaw was given command of the garrison of Fort Washington in what is now the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, in the autumn of 1776 as George Washington and his army withdrew from New York into New Jersey, and he was forced to surrender on 16 November 1776 after an assault by Wilhelm von Knyphausen and an army of British Army] soldiers and [[Hessians. Magaw was exchanged in October 1780, and from 1781 to 1782 he served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He died in Carlisle on 7 January 1790.